Date: Tuesday 27 January 2015
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Sir Robert Worcester, Sir David Butler, Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Chair: Tony Travers

The 2015 general election will be momentous. It is virtually impossible to predict the outcome of such a tightly-run race. Labour and the Conservatives have seen their National vote share decline from 97 per cent to 65 per cent between 1955 and 2010. UKIP, the SNP, the Greens and other incumbent parties are possibly on the rise. This special event brings together a number of Britain’s leading election and constitutional experts to consider what past elections can tell us about the 2015 contest. Which were the great general elections, and who were the great party leaders?

Robert Worcester, founder of MORI, is Chairman of the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee.

David Butler is a social scientist and psephologist.

Vernon Bogdanor is Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary British History at King's College London and Professor of Politics at the New College of the Humanities.

British Government@LSE is an initiative currently based in the Government Department (@lsegovernment) to promote and develop research on British Government being conducted at the LSE.

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